Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1936)

MOTION P1CTUR£ DAILY Saturday, June 27, 1936 4 Purely Personal ► 2 MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Registered U. S. Patent Office) Vol. 39 June 27, 1936 No. 151 Martin Quigley Editor-in-Chief and Publisher MAURICE KANN, Editor J. M. JERAULD Managing Editor JAMES A. CRON, Advertising Manager Published daily except Sunday ^and holidays by Quigley Publications, Inc^ Martin Quigjey, president; Colvin Brown, vicepresident and treasurer. Publication Office: 1270 Sixth Avenue, at Rockefeller Center, New York. Telephone Circle 7-3100. Cable address "Quigpubco, New York." All contents copyrighted 1936 by Quigley Publications, Inc. Address all correspondence to the New York OCice. Other Quigley publications. Motion Picture Herald, Better Theatres, The Motion Picture Almanac and The BoxOffice Check-Up. Hollywood Bureau: Postal Union Life Building, Vine and Yucca Streets, Boone Mancall, Manager; Chicago Bureau: 624 South Michigan Avenue, C. B. O'Neill, Manager; London Bureau: 4 Golden Square, London, W. 1, Bruce Allan, Representative Cable address "Quigpubco, London"; Berlin Bureau: Stuelerstrasse 2, Berlin W 35; Joachim K. Rutenberg, Representative; Paris Bureau: 19, Rue de la Cour-des-Noues, Pierre Autre, Representative; Rome Bureau: Vial? Gorizia, Vittorio Malpassuti, Representative; Australian Bureau: Regent Theatre Buildings, 191 Collins Street, Melbourne, Cliff Holt, Representative; Mexico City Bureau: Apartado 269, James Lockhart, Representative; Budapest Bureau: 3, Kaplar-u, Budapest, II, Endre Hevesi, Representative; Tokyo Bureau: 880 Sasazuka, Ichikawa-shi, Chiba-Ken, H. Tominaga, Representative; Prague Bureau: Uhelny trh 2, Prague 1, Harry Knopf, Representative; Shanghai Bureau: Rooms 38-41 Capital Theatre Building, 142 Museum Road, J. P. Koehler, Representative; Rio de Janeiro Bureau: Caixa Postal 3358, A. Weissman, Representative; Buenos Aires Bureau: Corrientes 2495, N. Bruski, Representative; Barcelona Bureau: Hotel Ritz, Plaza de las Cortes, Harry Chapin Plummer, Representative. Entered as second class matter. January 4, 1926, at the Post Office at New York City, N. Y., under Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates per year $6 in the Americas,, and foreign $12. Single copies: 10 cents. Coney Island Seeks 77-B Reorganizing The Coney Island Theatre Corp. tiled a petition to reorganize under Section 77-B of the Bankruptcy Law in Federal court at Brooklyn yesterday. The company operates the Coney Island and leases an office building in connection with the theatre. The company's petition said that its gross receipts had declined from $360,000 in 1930 to $272,000 in 1935 and that rental on the office space had declined proportionately. It stated that despite a reduction of the ground lease from $30,000 to $25,000 per year it was unable to meet current obligations. Open Monday at Pawling Maryverne Jones' Starlight Theatre will open its third season Monday night. The opening attraction will be "The Swan," featuring Rosamond Pinchot and directed by Mrs. Jones. The theatre is on Route 22, Pawling. Mulhall Wins a Medal Jimmy Mulhall of the RKO bowling team has received a medal at the Radio City Bowling Alleys. Mulhall compiled a score of 111 in a head pin tournament sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon. ED KUYKENDALL leaves Chicago today for the special meeting of the Iowa-Nebraska M.P.T.O. and goes to Kansas City for the K.M.T.A. meeting there next Wednesday. He plans to return to his Columbus, Miss., home from there for several weeks, coming to New York during the latter part of July, according to present plans. • John Canny, in charge of the M.P.P.D.A. mail department, has resigned to become a state trooper at the Oneida, N. Y., headquarters with plans of some day telling his erstwhile "bosses" where to head in. • Mack Gordon and Harry Revel will arrive on the N ormandie Monday. They have been in England doing scores for two G. B. films, "Paris Love Song" and "Everybody Dance." • Jack Ellis' song "I'll Never Let You Go" will be plugged on the air by Burns and Allen, the Shell program, Frances Langford, Dick Powell and Guy Lombardo. Johnny O'Connor says he saw more cows, corn and cucumbers in five days on his midwest trip than he ever saw before. George O'Brien left for the coast yesterday to begin work on RKO's picture based on the life of Daniel Boone, the American Tarzan. • Dave Palfreyman will haunt his old Indiana and Michigan stamping grounds while vacationing during the month of July. • Joe Horn stein was in Franklin, N. J., yesterday to attend the reopening of a theatre he equipped in the town. • Roland Young is in town from Hollywood. He will sail for England after a vacation here to appear in G. B.'s "King Solomon's Mines." • Charles Gribbon, manager of the Long Island branch of Lloyd's Film Storage, sails today on the Aquitania. He will be accompanied by his family. 0 George Raft has cut short his vacation here to return to the coast for the start of "Yours for the Asking." • Chris Donphy, financial publicist at Paramount, is due in Hollywood today to start an intensive vacation. • Jules Brulatour and Mrs. Brulatour, the former Hope Hampton, sail today on the Rex. • Priscilla Dean and James Hepburn, the latter brother to Katharine, sail today on the Lafayette. • R. H. Cochrane and Frank W. Lovejoy sail for a European cruise today on the Paris. • Barney Balaban returned to Chicago yesterday after a brief stay here. • Harry C. Cohen, western district manager for RKO, is still around town winding up the F.W.C. deal. BARRY FITZGERALD, Arthur Shields, Eileen Crowe and F. J. McCormick, Abbey players, who arrived from Ireland a few days ago, left last night for the coast to work for Radio. • Richard C. Kahn, president of Screen Classics, Inc., has left for the coast. • Alan Baxter and Mort Blumenstock seen dining at the Edison. • Edward Alpersox returned from the coast yesterday. Leo Spitz left by plane yesterday for the coast for an indefinite stay. 350 at Testimonial Dinner for Miller Chicago, June 26. — The testimonialdinner to Jack Miller, retiring head of the exhibitor unit, in the Red Lacquer Room of the Palmer House tonight, was attended by 350 theatre men. Aaron Saperstein headed the committee, and Felix Mendelsohn was toastmaster. Speakers included Ed Kuykendall, Al Steffes, Clyde Eckhardt, Saperstein, Henry Herbel, Morris Leonard, Barney Balaban, Lt. Henry Costello, Dave Palfreyman, Fred Wehrenberg, Walter Immerman, Ed Adcock, Sam Myers, Dick Biechle and Sid Spiegel. The stag affair was featured by entertainment, recruited from local theatres, which followed the laudatoryspeeches. Hutchinson Starts World Trip Aug. 11 Walter J. Hutchinson, head of foreign activities for Twentieth CenturyFox, will leave for the coast Aug. 11 on the first leg of a 'round the world tour. On Aug. 19 he will sail for Auckland, Australia, where he will meet S. S. Crick and Charles Munroe, who will accompany him to Sydney. Hutchinson is due in Sydney on Sept. 4. From Sydney, he will head for the Dutch East Indies. At Singapore the Twentieth Century-Fox foreign head will be met by Dell Goodman, who will accompany him as far as India. From India, Hutchinson will proceed to the Near East and Europe. Fight Films N. O. Hit New Orleans, June 26. — T h e Louis-Schmeling fight pictures shown exclusively at the Orpheum are drawing more than capacity audiences. Sunday several lines were formed. Fight Big in Portland Portland. June 26. The Schmeling-Louis fight pictures have drawn so heavily at the Mayfair that they have been moved to the Broadway and a second print is showing simultaneously at the Orpheum. Dies Watching Fight Harrisburg, June 26. — Just when Max Schmelmg landed a right on the jaw of Joe Louis in the fight films at the Colonial today G. Frank Brower, 60, of Newville, Pa., collapsed. He died shortly afterwards from a heart attack. He was carried from his seat to the lobby. Government Forcing Spain Strike's End Barcelona, June 26. — The minister of labor of Catalunya has notified both sides in the protracted mercantile strike that if, at the meeting of committees today an agreement is not reached, the Government will step in and adjust the difficulty, probably by "laudo," or mandatory arbitration. Jacques Ed el stein, Ferdinand Bruckner and Luis Echevarria of M-G-M : Enrique Aguilar and part of the Universal staff ; Morgan Charles Fenn, assistant manager, and Francisco Garcia, sales manager of United Artists, are serving film personally and keeping their offices open. Sydney S. Horen of Hispano Foxfilm is leading in negotiations in the separate projectionists' strike, with 13 of 23 points settled. An executive of Cifesa, major Spanish distributor, has offered full cooperation to the American theatres. Hepburn Asks Clergy To View "Pastures" Toronto, June 26. — As a result of the controversy over the banning of "Green Pastures" by the Ontario censors, Premier M. F. Hepburn has offered to permit clergymen of Toronto to attend a private showing of the feature. Regardless of what the clergy may say about it. however. Premier Hepburn says the ban on the picture will not be removed because he considers it "an insult to religion." The Ontario leader emphasized that he has the final say in the matter because he heads the board of appeal for the consideration of censor board rulings. Clergymen of various denominations have protested for the first time against condemning of a feature by the Ontario tribunal. Loud Speakers Beat Orator of Strikers Camden, June 26.— The RCA Mfg. Co. is using loud speakers to drown out the voices of striking pickets who are operating outside the plant. The speakers play "Anchors Aweigh"' and other band music. The company has asked the strikers' union to submit a written poll of the 12.000 workers. Names Theatre Advisers Albany, June 26. — George M. Gatts, state director of the Federal theatre project, has named an advisory committee of men and women. On it are : Daniel Frohman, Mayor LaGuardia. Alma Clayburgh. Joseph P. Day, Herbert Bayard Swope, Henry Breckenridge, Fannie Hurst, S. Stanwood Menken. Edwin Denby, George Gordon Battle, Mrs. Frederick Steinway, Airs. James Lee Laidlaw and Irene Lewisohn. Shows are being presented in Westchester, on Long Island, and in Xew York City, Syracuse and Buffalo. Detroit Man Arrested Detroit, June 26. — I. J. London has been arrested for running Skillful Screeno games in three theatres. Hearing has been set for July 3. The arrest follows a recent decision of the State Supreme Court that cash giveaways in Shreiber houses were lottery violations. Screeno attorneys will defend London as a test.